Musicals

Musical (1981)
Music and lyrics by
Stephen Sondheim
Book by George Furth
Based on the original play by George S, Kaufman and Moss Hart
Directed by Maria Friedman
Music Director and Conductor: Matthew Stern
Huntington Theatre Company
Boston University Theater
Symphony Hall area, Boston
September 8 – October 15, 2017
A stunningly good production of the Sondheim musical from the early 1980s which flopped originally on Broadway but found new life in London in the early 1990s.

Musical (1959)
Book by Arthur Laurents
Music by Jule Styne
Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Suggested by memoirs of
Gypsy Rose Lee
Lyric Stage Company of Boston
Copley Square area, Boston
September 1 – October 8, 2017
A robust revival of the classic Broadway musical about the stripper Gypsy Rose Lee and her forceful stage mother.

Musical (1996)
Book by Terrence McNally
Music by Stephen Flaherty
Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens
Based on the novel Ragtime
by E. L. Doctorow
Ogunquit Playhouse
Ogunquit, ME
August 2-26, 2017
A superlative production of the musical based on the semi-historical novel by E.L. Doctorow about race relations at the turn of the twentieth century.

Musical (2014)
Book by Marsha Norman
Music and Lyrics by
Jason Robert Brown
Based on the novel by
Robert James Waller
Directed by M. Bevin O’Gara
Musical Direction by Matthew Stern
Speakeasy Stage Company
Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston
May 6 – June 3, 2017
A lovely rendition of the musical based on the novel and film about an Italian-born farmer’s wife in Iowa who has a passionate and life-changing affair with a traveling photographic journalist.

Musical (1964)
Book by Joseph Stein
Music by Jerry Bock
Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick
Directed by Austin Pendleton
Music direction by F. Wade Russo
Choreography by Kelli Edwards
New Repertory Theater
Arsenal Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA
December 2, 2016 – January 11, 2017
A terrific, kick-ass production of the fifty-two year old classic based on stories by Sholem Aleichem.